The Labor Movement in the United States | History
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Analyze the impact of the labor movement in America throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
Collective bargaining and labor unions need to be abolished!
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How come you conveniently forgot about the add the part where labor movement came out of communism?
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As a Union member or 14 years, and professional labor Organizer now, it's really frustrating to see the continued decline of unions. The gains that the labor movement in the US gave us have been all but completely forgotten. We're still here and still fighting, but it's getting dark. Rise up, stand up, declare your worth as a worker, it is your right.
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Today my 10-year-old asked why we have Saturdays off, so I explained unions, all they’ve done for us, and why they’re so important. I couldn’t explain why union workers have been voting against their own rights, though.
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I have watched many videos made by Americans about the history of the birth of labor unions. None of the videos tell how important Finnish immigrants were to the history of the birth of unions. In many areas, it was the Finns who started spreading information and organizing strikes and marches. They published bulletins and a workers' newspaper. Many Finnish immigrants even lost their lives in the fight for better working conditions.
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"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." -Abraham Lincoln.
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Wow, so workers really did have to fight for basic stuff like weekends and not getting their fingers chopped off? Wild. 🤯
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Talk about labor and child labor especially and unions to not even mention Mary Harris (mother jones) in the video is a travesty
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May Day (May 1st) is International Workers' Day and it was started in the USA. We been had‼️
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it's a great tragedy that healthcare tied to employer and insurer has been used to discipline and contain the labor movement
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"Proletarians of all countries, unite!"
- The Communist Manifesto. 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
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Local 302 Operators Union Alaska! Labour Unions are the only thing keeping the pay gap from expanding to an unrecoverable degree. The top 1% would prefer you didn’t have a union. So defend yourself from them and a Government who wants to dismantle unions. Democracy means rich or poor has a voice!
@Thetravelingalaskani have to watch this for school🙄
@beach_25Omg Zach Efron, you did such a great job explaining this! Thank you!
@RichardNyhusGang helped me graduate
@coreyhoffman7061I sure pray that all those before us that worked so hard, and some died, check out what happened at Ford, years ago, will not have been in vain with the new occupent of the White House!
@mikebrzostowski8183Here because of school
@AE83493Migrants come here and spread the Lilly of the fields story, prosper at minimum wages, struggle till they are either deported or so dirt poor desperate they steal, and beg for labor! Us, we are forced to do the work, no wages, no history, as they tell the story that never was! Our labor was not in vain, but migrants reduced our pay to under minimum wage, then get this, they call us slaves? OYE vey
@ernestined.lawrence9514Zaatakowaliscie mnie w moim mieszkaniu. Jesteście tacy sami jak Nazisc . Jaka różnica ? Żyjecie w czasach pokoju otyłośc,i zagracenia, i udaje wam się z takimi czynami którym im się nie udało. Ukradliscie mi macierzyństwo "dla dobra dziecka". Psychopaci macie kontrakty z Chinami które produkują dla was Chińskie dziewczynki które wam obciągają kutasay za pleckami waszych paskudnych zon stare sflaczałe dziady. Mój poród więcej kosztował mnie niż adopcja z chin kosztuje. Będziecie mieli "happy ending" psychole. wsadzie swoje kutase w prezerwatywie smakowej małej chińskiej dziewczynce do buziuni żeby sobie polizała. to wy mnie zaatakowalisce. to wy mi wszystko zabraliście. Niestety inteligentny komputerek na UDA automatycznie nie zmienia literek na duże po kropce. Męża się kurwiszony zabiera na rozmnażanie. Nie pierwszy nie ostatni. Żyjecie w jakimś zboczonym imperium rzymskim z czasów przed skrzyżowaniem Jezusa Chrystusa. Jezusow to ty macie pełno. Gorsze niż śmierć. Nie macie emocji. mordujecie własne dzieci i cudze dzieci. jesteście zboczeńcami seksualnymi dewiantami z pociągami do małych dzieci. wasi partnerzy mogą sobie wygolic dupska żeby tam nie było włosów macie sekcje prostytutek męskich damskich dorosłych co wyglądaja jak małe dzieci dla was zboczency.
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@jojogaming9652The history channel has a political agenda. Too bad. Good idea for programming but once again hijacked by the left.
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@dfeujhcbarreragomezI am here because a question on this were asked in one of India's toughest competitive exams for Labour Welfare
@MsMumbaikarThe 8 hour workday was won through blood
@dookiepostThe end of globazation is laughable how was America made and built ....If not immigrant than who ?????America is a corporation not a country, anyone can buy America and America must trade with the World in irder to be propersous..... period
@PressEntertainmentLLCIt’s unfortunate what has become of the labor movement today where the unions tend to be ineffective and bloated by their own self interests!!
@davidhoene3317The labor movement in on a decline because companies fear paying workers livable wages fueled by greed so they spend billions to break and brainwash the working class unions are “bad” now rather then give fair benefits they claim they can’t afford to pay more pensions are outdated meanwhile spending ungodly amounts to make sure you don’t unionize and giving themselves at the top $400,000.00 a MONTH secured pensions and benefits more for them less for you if you unionize it gives you the right to hold them accountable and collectively Bargain union due are a small price to pay I see it as insurance to be treated properly and provided protection from unfair labor practices
@Want-sum-cheese-lil-ratEl Partido Laborista Progresista (en inglés: Progressive Labor Party, PLP) es un partido comunista marxista-leninista, antirrevisionista de los Estados Unidos. Se fundó en enero de 1962 como Movimiento Laborista Progresista tras una escisión en el Partido Comunista de Estados Unidos, adoptando su nuevo nombra hasta una convención celebrada en primavera de 1965. Estuvo involucrado en el movimiento contra la guerra de Vietnam de los años 60 y principios de los años 70 a través de la Alianza Estudiantil Trabajadora, facción de Estudiantes por una Sociedad Democrática.
El órgano de difusión del PLP es el periódico quincenal, Challenge.
The Organized labour movement was long established in Britain years before it got started in the US. Trade Guilds and Masonic lodges were the earliest forms of Unions. It is surprising that a country, supposedly dedicated to the cause of Liberty has been so slow to adopt fair wages and work hours as a part of its mandate
@jimpomacLabour.
@Rikard_AYou failed of course to mention that child labor was opposed by the Christian community
This video makes the labor movement some virtuous thing. It was riddled with Marxists. Many of whom came here in 1848 after failing to bring about a Marxist revolution in Europe.
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@paulfranco3239Labor unions in many places are stronger than ever. I'm in California and a part of operating engineers union. Mostly heavy equipment operators. I'm getting $65 an hour, plus $5 an hour extra vacation pay. $10 an hour pension. Health insurance with a very small deductible. For me, I thank God I joined a union and my skill aa a crane operator keeps me busy.
@shaneross7428lol i watched this video as school work....
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@jboy9420It's time for a labor renaissance!
@ABC_GuestPharisees and saduccees had a union to their off shore bank accounts🎃
@glitch-pr3nrAn end to the means and ways🎃headless horsemen💚🐲
@glitch-pr3nrHappy Labor Day
@PrimateSoulAmazing how history repeats itself. Supporters of child labor are cropping up again just this last couple years.
@lNoWayAroundItlI'm a benefit of the labor movement and Unions. I respect the history and the struggle.
@kevinwhite1772New ways of “stake holding… benefit matter a lot.
@ryanweaver962Notice how this corporate video is extremely short and hardly gives you any details. If it did give you the details, it'd might turn you into a leftist radical...like those workers were. Which is exactly what they don't want you to understand or become.
The labor movement is what gave us the middle class. NOT capitalism. Capitalism gave unfathomable wealth to a small elite and poverty and misery for the masses. That's not an opinion, it's a historical, documented fact. Be a little more skeptical of the capitalist propaganda you've been spoonfed since childhood as an American. If the capitalist elite had their way, they'd abolish worker rights and any labor laws. Understand this.
Tyrrany in the workplace! Now the only fair workers' rights are in the European Union!!!
@marcelpenuelatraub2343All due to Brexit!!!
@marcelpenuelatraub2343This will be truly repeated in the UK, sadly it's over 200 years after the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
@marcelpenuelatraub2343Unions
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